That is a question I get by everyone when they find out I actually eat chickens and turkeys I have raised.
In a previous post I gave a brief explanation of how this is done I have made a few adjustments after a few processing's now.
Start with a building a fire; you will need this later.
Put a huge pot of water on to boil.
Get your bird.
Hang a rope from a tree limb.
Tie the turkeys legs together and hang him upside down.
This will freak him out for just a few seconds, then he will calm. This is my preferred killing position; they do not flop on the ground and bruise the meat.
Next take a super sharp knife and cut the veins on each side of the neck. Only the veins try to miss the fingers.
Give them a few minutes to bleed out.
Put the turkey in a wash tub and pour hot water on it.
I prefer this to dipping the bird, it seems to get the wing areas better.
Pluck the bird.
My photographer was pretty much grossed out at this point and pictures of removing the entrails would be too gross for some of my readers (and you know I’m politically correct).
Remove the entrails, neck, feet, etc. and toss in the fire along with the feathers.
Otherwise your help will get them. You don’t want them to get the taste of fresh blood.
That is Lucy, Sasha and Winston’s pup.
Once the bird is cleaned, soak in cold water to cool the temperature down.
Wrap in freezer paper, like the chickens pictured below
or put in the refrigerator and cook in two days as the turkey picture below.
Then kiss the cook!
ENJOY!
2 comments:
Those of us who grew up in the generation where chickens and other livestock were butchered for the table understand this process - - - we are not repulsed by it, nor do we turn against eating meat when it dawns on our little brains that meat comes from an animal.
Alas and Alack, the younger generation who always thought meat came in a plastic package all ready for the stove don't seem so well adjusted about the idea that something actually has to die for us to eat meat.
Wonder how they feel about eating fruits and vegetables alive.
;-)
Keep preaching Sister! I can't get people to understand chickens are not born in shrink wrap.
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